Tom Valenti's One-Pot Meals: Pork Tenderloin Medallions Recipe

Pork tenderloin is an incredibly versatile and easy cut of meat to cook with. You can use it whole or, to really speed up the preparation process, cut into medallions. Tom Valenti, best-selling cookbook author and owner of Ouest restaurant in New York City, came up with this incredibly flavorful recipe for his book Tom Valenti's Soups, Stews, and One-Pot Meals.

If you don't want to fire up the grill, cook the medallions in a sauté pan over medium-high heat for five to six minutes per side for medium-rare, seven to eight minutes for more well done.

Directions

Put the pork medallions in a baking dish. Scatter the garlic slices over the pork and drizzle with the olive oil. Cover; let marinate in the refrigerator for 2 to 3 hours.

2.

Bring the water to a boil in a large, heavy-bottomed pot over high heat. Add the onions, and boil until tender, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove onions with a slotted spoon; discard.

3.

Gradually stir the vinegar and brown sugar into the boiling water; let boil for 5 minutes. Stir in the ketchup, molasses, chipotle purée, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, and cumin seeds. Remove the pot from the heat. If not serving immediately, let cool, cover, and refrigerate for a few days or freeze for up to 1 month. Reheat before proceeding.

4.

Remove the pork medallions from the refrigerator and let come to room temperature. Set aside half of sauce. Prepare an outdoor grill for grilling.

5.

Brush off the garlic slices and excess oil from pork medallions, season them on both sides with salt and pepper, and place them on the grate over the hottest part of the grill. Grill, basting with the remaining half of the barbecue sauce, for about 5 minutes on each side.

6.

To serve, place 1 pork portion on each of 4 plates and serve the reserved barbecue sauce alongside.

Ed Levine is the founder and overlord of Serious Eats and author of multiple books, most recently Serious Eater: A Food Lover's Perilous Quest for Pizza and Redemption. He is also the creator and host of the Serious Eats podcast, Special Sauce. In 2016, Ed was inducted into the James Beard Foundation's Who's Who of Food & Beverage in America.

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